Former Senator Bob Menendez Sentenced to 11-Years in Prison


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance

There’s no sympathy for Bob Menendez at all; however, all things considered, he was convicted of doing the same thing that every Senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does, and the same thing that Joe Biden did for decades… Sell the influence of their office to foreign countries. They all do it.

The difference with Senator Bob Menendez was only that he was so open about doing it, and he dropped all the pretenses that usually provide the plausible deniability factor. Today the judge sentenced him to 11-years in federal prison.

WASHINGTON – […] A jury in July found Menendez, along with Edgewater developer Fred Daibes and Egyptian American businessman Wael Hana, guilty on all charges related to the bribery scheme. Daibes was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $1.75 million. Hana was sentenced to a little more than eight years in prison and fined $1.3 million. Menendez was not fined for his part in the corruption.

The trial hinged on accusations that Menendez used his political might to influence criminal investigations involving the two businessmen and helped direct billions in U.S. aid to Egypt to bolster their business dealings. In exchange, Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, received gifts including gold bars, cash and luxury cars.

Menendez, 71, represented New Jersey for more than 18 years in the U.S. Senate. He resigned in August after the convictions. (read more)

Robert F Kennedy Jr Senate Confirmation Hearing – 10:00am EST Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance 

Today, Robert F Kennedy Jr will become the first of this week’s trio of nominees to enter the arena.   RFK Jr was nominated for Secretary of Health & Human Services and his first day of inquisition occurs before the Senate Finance Committee.

The Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:00am EST, with livestream links below.

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Nicole Shanahan Vows to Fund Challengers to Senators Who Do Not Support RFK Jr Nomination


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance

Former vice-presidential running mate to Robert F Kennedy Jr, Nicole Shanahan, has released a video threatening to personally fund primary challengers for those Senators who do not support the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Saying, “Bobby may place nice, I won’t” Ms. Shanahan is vowing to target Senators, many of them she funded, if they cower to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture. Additionally, Shanahan provided a list of key Senators and their contact details for a public pressure campaign. Robert F Kennedy’s first confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:00am EST.

Senator Mitch McConnell (R) Call: 202-224-2541
Senator Lindsey Graham (R) Call: 202-224-5972
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) Call: 202-224-6665
Senator Susan Collins (R) Call: 202-224-2523
Senator Bill Cassidy (R) Call: 202-224-5824
Senator Thom Tillis (R) Call: 202-224-6342
Senator James Lankford (R) Call: 202-224-5754
Senator Cory Booker (D) Call: 202-224-3224
Senator John Fetterman (D) Call: 202-224-4254
Senator Bernie Sanders (D) Call: 202-224-5141
Senator Cortez-Masto (D) Call: 202-224-3542
Senator Raphael Warnock (D) Call: 202-224-3643
Senator Jon Ossoff (D) Call: 202-224-3521

Jake Tapper vs Stephen Miller: CNN Creates Anxiety Promoting Fake News, Then Blames Trump Admin for Anxiety Stemming from Their Fake News


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance 

Jake Tapper is chasing Jim Acosta’s career path.

CNN and most corporate media spent the prior 36 hours creating fake news stories about a widespread pause in federal spending.  According to CNN and others, all federal spending was being stopped. Fake News.

With the Fake News they created in hand, the media and CNN then begin questioning politicians about something that doesn’t exist.  The politicians are confused.  The media then promote the confusion of the politicians as evidence of damage within the fake news they created.  More media then begins reporting on the confusion and widespread panic ensues.

Those individuals, people and organizations who are dependent on federal spending rushed head-first into a state of apoplexy.  CNN’s Jake Tapper then climbs the highest horse, grabs the flag of righteousness to defend the apoplectic, and pretends not to know that CNN Fake News created the panic that CNN Fake News now blames on Trump.  WATCH:

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Acting Attorney General James McHenry Fires Dozen+ DOJ Prosecutors from Jack Smith Investigation


Posted originally on the CTH on January 28, 2025 | Sundance 

Acting Attorney General James McHenry has fired more than a dozen career prosecutors from Main Justice citing their work with the Special Counsel Jack Smith targeting of President Trump.  This is an exceptionally valuable non-pretending approach toward eliminating the weaponization of the DOJ, the history of the manipulation of the DOJ/FBI serves as the backdrop.

Remember when Robert Mueller spent 2 years investigating the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, and it was later discovered the investigative team (5o FBI agents) knew in January 2017, the Trump-Russia collusion claim was false.  Why did those 50 FBI agents remain employed, when it was clear they knew there was no basis for the accusations?  The simple non-pretending questions are always the starkest.

That’s the sentiment behind current Acting AG James McHenry, firing the lawyers who worked with Jack Smith.  In addition to the fabrication of a prosecutorial predicate, the deployment of Lawfare is not based on factual law.  The prosecutors showed their political bias by willingly engaging in a prosecution they understood was without merit.

(WASHINGTON AP) – […] The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and is consistent with the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president.

Monday’s norm-shattering move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain with the department across presidential administrations and are not punished by virtue of their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firings are effective immediately.

“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” said a statement from a Justice Department official. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.” (read more)

Jim Acosta Quits CNN


Posted originally on the CTH on January 28, 2025 | Sundance 

Moments after President Donald Trump posted a snarky tribute to Jim Acosta losing his timeslot at CNN Fake News, Acosta quit the network.

“Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, “Death Valley,” because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!). Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better. Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up. Good luck Jim!” ~ President Donald Trump

White House Press Briefing – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, First Presser – 1:00pm EST Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on January 28, 2025 | Sundance

Today at 1:00pm EST, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold her first briefing from the Brady press room in the White House.

With eight days of rapid activity from the office of President Donald Trump, the DC Press Corps is loaded with ammunition to begin their ever-insufferable onslaught. against Leavitt and the administration.  Livestream links are below.  ENJOY: 

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CIA Director Ratcliffe: Trump Admin Considering National Lab for AI, Similar to Manhattan Project


Posted originally on the CTH on January 28, 2025 | Sundance 

The CIA and Intelligence Community working together with Silicon Valley tech teams to develop best in class AI systems, using references from prior nuclear weapon development, “The Manhattan Project.”  Huh, what could possibly go wrong. {GO DEEP}

BREITBART – CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News last week that President Donald Trump’s administration is considering creating a national laboratory akin to the Manhattan Project to help develop and steer the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

“When you talk about AI, one of the things I want to explore is whether we can expand and establish a national laboratory for the development of AI to help the U.S. government leverage emerging technology to make sure American leadership is that,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview as CIA director last week.

[…] Ratcliffe explained the idea for national laboratories dates back to the Manhattan Project, where the U.S. government helped scientists develop nuclear weapons that won World War II for the United States and allied nations. He said the recent announcement from Trump of “Project Stargate,” the half-trillion-dollar initiative to promote AI, could be expanded upon to include more public-private partnerships akin to the Manhattan Project that get the U.S. out in front of the nation’s adversaries on AI.

“You saw this initiative the president discussed—Project Stargate—which is the four-year, $500 billion AI infrastructure project that’s been proposed with all of our great technology companies,” Ratcliffe said. “We could expand on that with a public-private partnership where a government element could participate, and we’ve done this before—our constellation of national laboratories can be traced back to the Manhattan Project, which we used as a public-private partnership to develop the first nuclear weapon to win World War II. We need to be thinking about the ways we can do that to counter how our adversaries are using things like the cyber threats to their strategic advantage and putting our national security interests in a place where we’re able to harness the data and computational speed of AI to understand trends and events and threats and opportunities faster than our adversaries do.” (read more)

On Christmas Day last year, CTH predicted exactly this scenario {SEE HERE}; only we took it forward to its logical conclusion.  You know, the part no one thinks about until the weapon is created….  Then, suddenly, as if on cue, this pops up:

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The system to classify Americans by personage is currently being developed inside the silos of the Intelligence Community, the Dept of Homeland Security and combined with the technological creations of those who are contracted to build it – like Palantir (Peter Thiel).

Within this matrix of categorized Americans there will be those who are not subjected to the surveillance, their constitutional rights will be protected, and they will be afforded all benefit of personage.  However, there will be lower classes who are continual targets for it who do not have such protection. There is no way to avoid this caste system outcome; in fact, many components of it are already in place.

Peter Thiel (Palantir), Elon Musk (xAI, SpaceX), Larry Ellison (Oracle), David Sacks and a host of mutually aligned artificial intelligence builders stand to benefit financially from a technologically efficient Surveillance State. Their companies and their AI software products are the targeting tools within the DHS surveillance system itself.  Do not be misled by their ownership of different companies within this construct, they are all mutually allied; factually, they are all friends in the same tech sector….

…. And now the CIA is directly saying, the IC should engage and support the emerging science.

There is no way to avoid being the target of an AI weapon once that weapon is created. However, unlike the mutually assured destruction within the nuclear analogy, there will be no threat of mutual application within the surveillance bomb.

There are going to be tiers of people who are not subjected to the rules of the Surveillance State. There are going to be tiers of people, powerful, influential, some intensely rich people, to whom the application of the surveillance does not exist.

I have already seen this ‘tiered’ system starting to come into place. I have witnessed firsthand the outcomes of the software being deployed within the design of their building.

I have witnessed real identities masked by the system as an outcome of their status. Facial recognition programs that black out search results based on arbitrary definitions and determinations of those who control the surveillance application.

Congress reauthorized FISA-702 only after ensuring the warrantless database searches could not be used against any member of congress or their staff.

In the private sector, I wonder how much it would cost to qualify and register for the “grey people” list?

Which candidate do we donate to?  Vance ’28?

President Trump Attends the House GOP Conference in Florida – 3:30pm EST Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on January 27, 2025 | Sundance 

The House GOP is holding their planning conference in Doral, Florida.  President Trump is anticipated to attend and deliver remarks at 3:30pm EST.  Livestream Links Below:

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Three Significant Senate Confirmation Hearings This Week – RFK Jr, Gabbard and Patel


Posted originally on the CTH on January 27, 2025 | Sundance 

There are three big Senate confirmation hearings this week, starting with HHS nominee RFK Jr on Wednesday, and then DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI nominee Kash Patel on Thursday.

Robert F Kennedy Jr will have two days in front of two different committees (Wed and Thursday).  Gabbard will have her Senate Intel Committee hearing and Kash Patel will have his hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee.  None of the three are sure things with each of them having about a 50/50 chance of confirmation out of committee as current opposition is aligned.

♦ Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr starts the week Wednesday at 10:00am EST in front of the Senate Finance Committee.  Kennedy’s opposition group consists of one of the largest lobbying groups in Washington DC, Big Pharma and Big Agriculture.

RFK Jr’s goal of reshaping HHS, FDA and USDA faces significant opposition from the lobbying groups who have paid for influence on policy and regulations and the Senators who have received funding to turn that lobbying into legislation and regulation.  On the positive side, the general public sentiment is supportive of the MAHA agenda. Public pressure could be the factor that secures the nomination, but nothing is certain.

♦ Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard represents the biggest internal threat to the Intelligence Community power and control structure within Washington DC.  However, recent reports now reflect that former Senate Intel Committee Chair Richard Burr is her guide in the nomination process.

As SSCI Chairman Burr was in favorable position with the IC in ’17, and ’18, but then after two years of passive support for the Trump targeting operation, he began to get wobbly in the eyes of the Seven Ways from Sunday group. They then carried out an operation to remove Burr via public leaks and investigative ends around Burr’s stock purchases and financial arrangements.  Burr was softly excommunicated from his status and replaced with Marco Rubio.

Burr as the confirmation guide for Tulsi Gabbard explains why she changed her position on FISA-702 to gain SSCI support.  However, as noted above, Burr no longer has the juice he once held, so this IC guiding hand might not be enough to dissuade opposition to Gabbard.

All of that said, some Senators are now demanding the SSCI have a public vote on the Gabbard nomination at the end of her inquisition.  The thinking is that if the SSCI bad actors in the GOP are forced to have a public vote, they will be less likely to expose themselves.  I doubt the committee will vote publicly, but you never know.

The SSCI is the enabling entity for the Intelligence Community corruption.  If they were able to compromise her enough, they would likely vote to support her.  However, if the SSCI members sense she is a simply telling them what they need to hear – and not actually believing it – they will likely reject her.  SSCI Chair Tom Cotton cannot afford that sunlight, he has to give the illusion of strong support and let his intel enablers do the heavy lifting to destroy her.  Again, successful exit from the committee to the full Senate is a 50/50 proposition on both votes.

♦ FBI Direct Kash Patel rounds out the trio.  Despite what some may think, there’s a stronger likelihood of Patel having a smooth hearing in the Senate Judiciary from the GOP wing of the UniParty, simply because the public is so awakened to the corruption within the FBI.

Patel will face a full-throated attack effort from the Democrats and not a single democrat is going to support him; so, this one is all on the Republicans in the Judiciary Committee and in the full Senate hearing if he comes out of the committee with all Republican support.

SUMMARY: Democrats are going to go nuclear on all three of these nominees this week.  All three are primary targets for the Left wing of the UniParty.  It is not coincidental that the Senate “paperwork issues” have ensured that all three appear in the same 24-hour timeframe.  This appears to be heavily scripted and by design.

Democrats want to stop President Trump, blunt his momentum, and/or at least damage him significantly in this process.  This is their first best opportunity to dig in and resist, while simultaneously fundraising on the resistance optics.  The corporate media have been pre-scripted with massive volumes of citations and talking points from the prior history of comments by all three of the targets.

Thursday will be the biggest day of Democrat resistance so far this year.  Thursday is the day to watch.

This is also a big test for Senate Majority Leader John Thune.